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StarTech Pocket Hard Drive Duplicator

Ken — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 02:41:00 +0000

Want to duplicate a hard drive without turning on a PC? Well, there are a lot of hard drive cloning tools available in the market, but I doubt if there is a cheap solution like this StarTech Pocket Hard Drive Duplicator. It’s only $77.99, but it’s coming with handful of features for cloning hard drive.

StarTech Pocket Hard Drive Duplicator is coming with both eSATA and USB connector that allow users to hook up the device with PC and turn the duplicator into some kind of hard drive dock for PC. As for the duplication feature, StarTech Pocket Hard Drive Duplicator allow exact 1-to-1 sector clone, including partition, boot sector information, and all data inside the source hard drive. There is an indicator above the destination port showing the percentage of the cloning process.

Of course, such a small device wouldn’t be able to power both of the hard drive. It comes with a power brick similar to a laptop version to ensure both hard drives get the sufficient power.

This StarTech Pocket Hard Drive Duplicator is selling for $78 directly at their official website. In case you want to be a reseller, there is a special pricing available after you’ve created an account.

StarTech Pocket Hard Drive Duplicator
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Portable Pocketable Whack-A-Mole Game KeyCharm

Ken — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:02:13 +0000

If you hate to wait in the queue doing nothing but standing for your turn, you can actually get something like a portable console (PSP or NDS) to kill time. However, if those console looks expensive for you, you can consider to get this piece of fun gadget from Japan called Portable Whack-a-Mole game keycharm.

You do know whack-a-mole game, don’t you? Often we can find one in the arcade zone where we have to use a big rubber hammer to smash those naughty moles that appear in their hole. It’s challenging and fun, but you can’t bring it anywhere with you so you can kill time with it on a long queue.

With this portable whack-a-mole game keycharm, you can even hit some mole while you are in the toilet! It has a keychain where you can strap it together with your keys. The game require no hammer/mallet to play because your thumbs are the best tool to play this game. Portable Whack-a-mole game is consist of a 7-rubber moles that will shine in red color.

They will not pop out like the real one, it only shine in red indicate they are out from its hole. all you have to do is to press the mole with your thumb and you are done. The more you press, the faster the game will go. Check out the video demo below:

Super noisy like a classic gameboard… but it’s fun for killing time in the queue, and nice for little thumbs exercise. If you are interested, this mini portable Whack-a-Mole Game KeyCharm is available at Strapya World for $14.70.

[via Technabob]

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Wikireader Now Gets Access 33,000 Books

Ken — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 03:48:51 +0000

Wikireader, the most energy efficient ebook reader is now has been open to received a huge 33,000 ebooks thanks to Project Gutenberg. The books has been added to the library and all of 33,000 ebooks could be fitted into a small 4GB microSD card. Which mean you’ll never run out of stock of ebook for your reading time, and Wikireader will be great partner for your boring time.

WikiReader is only $99, and powered by duo AAA batteries (with battery life for more than 1 year!) and it has all of the information that you need on Wikipedia without connecting to the Internet.

[Via Crunch Gear]

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Pocket Light by Harc Lee

Ken — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:56:34 +0000

Check out this pocket light concept designed by Harc Lee. It looks pretty impressive and share the same looks of a flatten light bulb. On the unfolded position, you can actually stuffed it into your wallet conveniently, while it can be a good light source when you fold the bulb up.

Sharing the blissful moments with your beloved.
In unexpected situations even a little lamp can be moving.
Just a card from your wallet sends out beautiful, mellow light,
with a cell at its back providing power.
The use of Back Light Unit makes its brighter even.
– by Harc Lee

More Detail: @Harc Lee

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WikiReader: Wikipedia on Your Pocket!

Ken — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:38:33 +0000

Wow, this is absolutely a great deal for those who love to snug their nose into the Wikipedia database because they now can bring the WHOLE Wikipedia contents (excluding images and multimedia files – Text only) on their pocket, so they can browser for an explanation on the go. If you think $99 worth the text on the whole Wikipedia site, I guess you should hurry head on to Amazon for getting one. The Device – WikiReader doesn’t connect right to the nearest hot-spot to update the database, but you have two options to keep the WikiReader up-to-date.

First, the device will be updated via SD card sent through the post every 3 months once containing the most up-to-date data from WikiPedia. Or second, if you think you are keen enough, you can go directly to the proper site to manually download the data and install it to the SD card by yourself.

The most beautiful feature WikiReader has is the power saving and ‘very’ low powered CPU teamed with monochrome touch-screen. Two AAA size batteries can give you lifespan of about a year long, and I think it’s really not too shabby.

[via Wired]